Emergency assistance is just one click away thanks to a device designed to fit in the palm of your hand and allowing you to alert up to five people at once. It’s a piece of jewelry users can wear on their wrist that connects to a cellphone's Bluetooth. "If I was in an emergency, all I would need to do is double press the back side of my device," Rajia Abdelaziz, co-creator said. "That will send out a text message to all five people."The device was created after Abdelaziz had a scary encounter where she felt her safety was in jeopardy. "As I am walking, the car stops and one of the guys started to get out," Abdelaziz said. Abdelaziz, along with another University of Massachusetts Lowell graduate, co-creator Raymond Hamilton, designed Invisawear. Abdelaziz said in moments like these, sometimes you can’t call for help. With the Invisawear device you have another option. "So, I am one of her contacts, I just get the alert, and it just says ‘Rajia has initiated an emergency alert,’" Hamilton said. "I click the link, and I can see her exact location.” All it takes is two clicks, and the phone shares your location with the five people you’ve chosen. Or you can contact the nearest police station. "This really means a lot to us - to protect the people that we love, Hamilton said. "That’s really what drives our passion behind this."Abdelaziz said she just hopes it gives others the chance to pre-emptively keep themselves safe. "I really hope people do start to take steps to protect themselves and not until situations, like these, happen to themselves or a loved one," she said.

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Emergency assistance is just one click away thanks to a device designed to fit in the palm of your hand and allowing you to alert up to five people at once.

It’s a piece of jewelry users can wear on their wrist that connects to a cellphone's Bluetooth.

"If I was in an emergency, all I would need to do is double press the back side of my device," Rajia Abdelaziz, co-creator said. "That will send out a text message to all five people."

The device was created after Abdelaziz had a scary encounter where she felt her safety was in jeopardy.

"As I am walking, the car stops and one of the guys started to get out," Abdelaziz said.

Abdelaziz, along with another University of MassachusettsLowell graduate, co-creator Raymond Hamilton, designed Invisawear.

Abdelaziz said in moments like these, sometimes you can’t call for help. With the Invisawear device you have another option.

"So, I am one of her contacts, I just get the alert, and it just says ‘Rajia has initiated an emergency alert,’" Hamilton said. "I click the link, and I can see her exact location.”

All it takes is two clicks, and the phone shares your location with the five people you’ve chosen. Or you can contact the nearest police station.

"This really means a lot to us - to protect the people that we love, Hamilton said. "That’s really what drives our passion behind this."

Abdelaziz said she just hopes it gives others the chance to pre-emptively keep themselves safe.

"I really hope people do start to take steps to protect themselves and not until situations, like these, happen to themselves or a loved one," she said.